A Dangerous Method

A Dangerous Method Release Date: November 23, 2011

A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.

Based on the play by Christopher Hampton, A Dangerous Method, directed by David Cronenberg, best known for his trippy 1980s movies such as The Fly, Scanners, The Dead Zone, Dead Ringers and Videodrome, (not to be confused with David Lynch, the hallucinogenic director of Eraserhead, The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet), and is about the conflict between Freud and his pupil Jung. Viggo Mortensen (nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for Eastern Promises) stars as Freud opposite Michael Fassbender as Jung. Keira Knightley plays Sabina, a disturbed young woman brought to see Jung by her father after which Jung and Sabina have an affair.